The Harvard Radio Meteor Project is a scientific investigative station based within

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. The Harvard station is investigating data specifically upon the height, the deceleration (speeds ) and the distribution of ionized material within the trail of meteors. The method involves a system of radar producing stations using data that has originated from the reflected pulse returning from the ion columns of meteors. The antenna used at the

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(main site) is described as a ''double-trough'' type

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